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KENAZ

(Heb. qĕnāz),

KENIZZITE

(qĕnizzî)

1. A son of Eliphaz, the firstborn son of Esau and Adah (Gen. 36:11 = 1 Chr. 1:36). This Kenaz, ordinarily understood to be the eponymous ancestor of the Kenizzites, functioned as an Edomite clan chief (Gen. 36:15, 42 = 1 Chr. 1:51, 53).

The Kenizzites were one of the 10 peoples whose territory Yahweh in a theophany promised to deliver to the progeny of Abram (Gen. 15:19). At some point the Kenizzites had evidently lived in or around Edom. However, some or all of that ethnic group must have migrated into the Negeb area of Canaan — perhaps as early as the Late Bronze Age. In due course these Kenizzites became politically associated with and then thoroughly absorbed by the more dominant tribe of Judah.

2. Caleb’s younger brother (Judg. 3:9), father of Othniel and Seraiah (1 Chr. 4:13).

3. The son of Elah and grandson of Caleb (1 Chr. 4:15).

Bibliography. E. C. Hostetter, Nations Mightier and More Numerous: The Biblical View of Palestine’s Pre-Israelite Peoples. BIBALDS 3 (North Richland Hills, 1995), 95-96.

Edwin C. Hostetter







Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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